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well today I had to have a meeting with my boss. It was a crappy meeting and I didnt like it. Every time it'smore of "you come off as cocky and think you are smarter than people" I have heard that all my life. The part that shocked me was the Sherman (my boss) said he thought my vocabulary made me come off as too smart. I felt offended by this
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Once, he got hauled down to Congress to testify. This must have been in the early 1980s, around the time that GTE bought Telenet. Ray was asked something about FCC merger policy. He started his reply with "WelI, we are mindful of synergistic concatenations ..." at which point the congressman's eyes bugged out. Nobody asked any followup questions.
And I worked with a lawyer who, during a trial, accused AT&T of deprecating on the record. The stenographer didn't know that word and substituted a similar word in the transcript. Third letter "f". Needless to say, that gem got passed around the office.
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